Security
7 posts
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AWS Shield Advanced pricing and cost (2026)
AWS Shield Advanced is $3,000 a month on a 1-year term. Its base WAF inclusion only matches that fee near 5 billion requests. DDoS credits pay only Shield.
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AWS Security Hub pricing: two models (2026)
Security Hub bills $3.75 per resource unit in US East (N. Virginia), while Security Hub CSPM bills per security check plus separately priced AWS Config items.
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Cognito pricing: Lite, Essentials, Plus (2026)
Cognito Plus bills $0.020 per MAU with no free tier for direct sign-in, and a token refresh or AdminGetUser call makes a user active. All three plans compared.
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AWS WAF pricing and what it costs (2026)
Ten million requests cost $6. The nineteen WAF rules inspecting them cost $19. Plus two overage meters that live in a footnote.
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Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store (2026)
AWS prices 1,500 secrets at $604.50 a month in Secrets Manager. Standard Parameter Store parameters are free. Plus a tier change you cannot undo.
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AWS KMS key pricing at scale (2026)
A rotated key costs $3 a month, not $1. And S3 Bucket Keys cut KMS request charges by up to 99% with no code change.
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GuardDuty bills flow logs you never made (2026)
GuardDuty analyses an independent duplicate stream of VPC Flow Logs, so deleting your own changes nothing. Plus the per-Region trial trap.